Dennıs L. Kasper, Anthony S. Faucı. Harrison's Infectious Diseases. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2010.

Despite enormous advances in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention during the twentieth century, physicians caring for patients with infectious diseases today must cope with extraordinary new challenges, including a neverending deluge of new information, the rapid evolution of the microorganisms responsible for these diseases, and formidable time and cost constraints. In no other area of medicine is the differential diagnosis so wide, and often the narrowing of the differential to a precise infection caused by a specific organism with established antimicrobial susceptibilities is a matter of great urgency. To inform crucial decisions about management, today’s care providers are typically turning to a variety of sources, including colleagues, print publications, and online services. Our goal in publishing Harrison’s Infectious Diseases as a stand-alone volume is to provide practitioners with a single convenient source that quickly yields accurate, accessible, up-to-date information to meet immediate clinical needs and that presents this information in the broader context of the epidemiologic, pathophysiologic, and genetic factors that underlie it.The authors of the chapters herein are acknowledged experts in their fields whose points of view represent decades of medical practice and a comprehensive knowledge of the literature.